Lots of close calls last week.
Greetings, BBN!
After a historic week of upsets two weeks ago, this past week was full of close calls. Four one-score games, two of them decided in overtime, made a big impact on the standings and just further showed how nobody was safe in this conference. Even Georgia’s home game against Mississippi State, in which they were 34.5-point favorites, they only won by 10. The Red River Rivalry was unusually drama-free, however—the league belongs to Texas until another team says otherwise.
Here are your SEC standings entering Week 8:
SEC Standings Week 8
Notes:
- Vanderbilt is now 2-1 in the SEC and 4-2 overall. They are two more wins away from a bowl, and their next game is at home against 2-4 Ball State. After that, opportunities against Auburn and South Carolina in early November might be enough for them to punch through.
- Since beating Kentucky in Week 2, South Carolina has lost three straight SEC games.
- Florida came extremely close to shocking Tennessee and handing them their second straight upset loss, but fell short in overtime. They really needed that one, because now they are 3-3 with an extremely difficult second half of their schedule coming up, and they’ll be playing the rest of the season without QB#1 Graham Mertz, who tore his ACL in the third quarter of the Tennessee loss.
- Missouri travelled to UMass for a nonconference game and a 45-3 win. It was UMass’s first ever time welcoming an SEC team into their home stadium and just the second time ever hosting a power conference team there.
- LSU is now 5-1 and back in the playoff bubble after an overtime touchdown in Death Valley to edge Ole Miss. The Tigers still have Texas A&M and Alabama to deal with but no other currently ranked opponents.
- Alabama came very close to making a SportsCenter Not Top 10 catastrophic mistake at the end of the South Carolina game. After Domani Jackson intercepted the ball near the Gamecocks’ end zone, he backed into the end zone but realized before falling to the ground that he needed to come back out of the end zone first! If he hadn’t, it would’ve been a safety, and the game would’ve been all tied up!